Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Andréa Ferréol, Jean Poiret, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : François Truffaut,

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

Actors : James Woods, Allison Balson, Victoria Tennant, Brian Dennehy,
Directors : John Flynn,

Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right,...

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and ...

Actors : Yoshie Shimamura, Iona Morris, Issei Miyazaki, Catherine Battistone,
Directors : Mori Masaki,

A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel, John Cassavetes,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

Two closely bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Christopher George, Robert Ginty, Steve James,
Directors : James Glickenhaus,

A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a great war zone and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.

Actors : Ramey Ellis, Alma Beltran, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Travolta,
Directors : James Bridges,

A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight.

Actors : Shelley Long, Gabriel Byrne, Judith Ivey, Corbin Bernsen,
Directors : Frank Perry,

A suburban housewife chokes to death and is brought back to life by a spell cast by her wacky sister.

Actors : Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Tom Courtenay, Zena Walker,
Directors : Peter Yates,

An effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Lear.

Actors : James Fox, Mimi Rogers, Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend,
Directors : Carl Schenkel,

When police officer Xavier Quinn's childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him, which could be even trickier.

Actors : Satish Shah, Ravi Baswani, Naseeruddin Shah, Bhakti Barve,
Directors : Kundan Shah,

Two friends, attempting to start-up their own photo studio, come across shady dealings, corruption and murder, and must fight to bring the guilty to light.

Actors : Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel,
Directors : Michael Haneke,

A European family who plan on escaping to Australia, seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.

Actors : Paul Rodriguez, Rudy Ramos, Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz,
Directors : Thomas Michael Donnelly,

Jack Casey used to be a hot-shot stock market whiz kid. After a disastrous professional decision, his life in the fast lane is over. He loses his nerve and joins a speed delivery firm which...

Actors : Milo, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Kyôko Koizumi, Dudley Moore,
Directors : Masanori Hata,

The adventures of a young cat and a dog as they find themselves accidentally separated and each swept into a hazardous trek.

Actors : Simon Yam, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee,
Directors : John Woo,

When three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Miguel Molina,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

A film maker's sexual disorientation jeopardizes his latest project.

Actors : John Wood, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Hordern, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Trevor Nunn,

The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a ...

Actors : Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Maria Conchita Alonso, Michael Ironside,
Directors : Walter Hill,

A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...

Actors : Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt, Willie, Okko,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

An Air Force pilot joins a top secret military experiment involving chimps, but begins to suspect there might be something more to the mysterious "Project X".

Actors : Makoto Ashikawa, Maiko Kawakami, Takeshi Kitano, Shirô Sano,
Directors : Takeshi Kitano,

A violence prone police officer discovers that his colleague is trafficking drugs.